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August 23, 2005, 10:00 AM PDT
Many companies see IT as a black box that generates significant costs. Few
business managers know exactly what they are paying for and why their outlays
keep rising.
By making these costs transparent, the IT organization can fundamentally change the way
business units consume IT resources, drive down total enterprise IT costs, and focus on
IT spending that delivers real business value. The CIO who leads this change can usher
in a new era of strategic IT management--and true partnership with the business.
IT cost transparency is a key component of what we
call the "next-generation infrastructure." This new
approach to managing infrastructure involves
discarding the traditional build-to-order mindset in
favor of creating standard, reusable IT "products,"
such as storage and telephone service. Cost
transparency provides the business with three things: a catalog of IT products that
specifies features, prices and service levels; bills showing the infrastructure assets
consumed by these products and the cost of their consumption; and management
reports that roll up total costs by product type and business unit.
Once business executives understand how user demand for IT drives consumption and
costs in their units, they can start forecasting their future needs more accurately, track and
manage usage, and make more thoughtful choices. They might opt to save money by
using less of a specific IT resource or by switching to lower-cost alternatives. A manager
might, for example, decide to cut back on e-mail storage by limiting the size of
mailboxes or discontinue the use of an application tied to high-cost storage or
underutilized servers.
Greater cost transparency also helps the IT organization improve the way it supplies IT to
meet user demand, particularly by improving the way it manages assets and its ability to
track costs. Management reports help IT to identify overall and unit costs that are out of
line with market benchmarks and to find ways of standardizing IT assets and allocating
them more effectively.
To further support cost management and capacity planning, IT can offer discounts to
business units that provide accurate demand forecasts, and it can use strategic pricing to
drive users toward more cost-effective products--or away from older technologies or
platforms. Taken together, demand-side management and supply-side cost controls can
deliver annual savings of 5 to 10 percent.
Moreover, once managers understand what they are paying for, their focus quickly
changes. Instead of "run the company" costs ("Why are my workstations so expensive?"),
they emphasize higher-value "change the company" investments ("What technology do
we need over the next 12 to 24 months to maintain our competitive edge?").
In this way, IT and the business become partners in achieving two overarching
objectives: minimizing IT costs and ensuring that IT investments add more value. This
dual payoff makes the hard work of a cost-transparency program worth the effort. Make
no mistake--such programs are a challenge to implement, requiring new roles and
responsibilities, new governance structures and strong CIO leadership. The first step,
though, is to analyze costs and demand.
Understanding costs and demand
Achieving a clear understanding of IT costs and a comprehensive view of demand
requires an accurate inventory of all assets and the total cost of supporting each item.
Getting this information isn't easy.
A large IT organization might support thousands of applications, dozens of physical
sites and tens of thousands of end users. Tracking all assets in use at any given
time--the servers, storage, communications networks, and end-user devices (such as
desktops, PDAs, and telephones)--is a major challenge. So too is analyzing the cost of
each item and keeping this information up to date. But without an understanding of
these costs, the IT organization can't determine how best to price products for full
recovery.
Each product in the IT catalog typically includes both fixed and variable costs.
Telephone service, for example, might include fixed costs for equipment (phones), labor
(support, engineering, and monitoring staff), maintenance, and depreciation (of PBX
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2. As soon as bills based on
actual IT usage start
rolling in, the business
can begin seeking ways to
control and reduce
consumption.
IT should create a set of
products up front that
the business
understands and can
manage.
hardware and voice circuits) as well as more variable costs for items such as voice usage.
The IT organization needs to break down these separate costs in the bill so business
units know what they are buying.
Assessing and allocating costs can be complex. The
task is fairly straightforward for tangible end-user
assets such as phones and laptops. But intangible
items--for instance, applications drawing on CPUs,
servers, administrative support, software licenses and
other infrastructure resources--require careful and
lengthy examination. Equally complex is
determining what to charge for different tiers of
service quality, such as 24-7 availability as opposed
to off-peak usage only. After figuring out the total cost of the IT resources that
applications consume, the IT organization must determine who "owns" them (users
often share ownership) in order to allocate costs appropriately. Tracking consumption is
one of the toughest but most critical parts of a successful cost transparency program.
Besides a clear understanding of IT costs, companies must develop a comprehensive,
cross-enterprise view of demand and what drives it so that the IT organization can have
the right amount of capacity in place: the servers, desktops, storage, CPUs, and other
necessary IT resources. This step is also critical to the business units' ability to generate
accurate usage forecasts--a key component of an effective IT cost transparency program.
These forecasts, in turn, help the IT organization to manage capacity, striking the right
balance between providing too many costly IT resources and not enough to
accommodate spikes in demand.
Few companies have systems to estimate and track demand for IT products and services.
Some charge relationship managers with the task of compiling forecasts and acting as an
interface between business-development teams and IT.
Making better decisions
Once the IT organization can track and allocate IT costs, it can send management reports
to the business units that break down their consumption and spending by end-user
products, applications, and projects. IT and the business units can then work together
to analyze which trade-offs to make between costs and service levels in order to meet the
company's goals for demand management and cost cutting.
The goals of effective demand management are twofold: optimizing (and often reducing)
the quantity of IT products the business consumes--with an eye toward cutting overall
costs--and changing the mix of IT spending to focus more on lower-cost products and
higher-value investments. A cost transparency program jump-starts this effort. As soon
as bills based on actual IT usage start rolling in, the business can begin seeking ways to
control and reduce consumption. Managers understand, usually for the first time, what
they are paying for and where they can cut back. Armed with this information, business
units can rethink their IT spending and seek out more strategic investments.
At one wholesale bank, for instance, managers in each business area understood, as they
never had before, how much they were paying for desktop products and applications.
Demand-driven IT bills not only provided new insights into the bank's cost-revenue
ratios but also clearly showed that the business itself played a role in raising IT costs.
The bank responded by creating a governance committee to review its IT investments
and ensure they were aligned with the overall business strategy.
Over time, the bank's cost transparency program achieved three powerful results. First, it
fundamentally changed the way the business spent its IT dollars. During the 2001
economic downturn, for instance, it cut several discretionary projects in order to go on
funding more strategic IT projects--much to the CIO's surprise. Second, the program
shifted responsibility for demand management to the business. By pruning and
consolidating the portfolio, the bank cut the consumption of various desktop products
and applications by 20 percent within the first year. Finally, the program forced IT to
manage and use the bank's IT resources in the most effective manner possible, leading
to savings of nearly 30 percent. These savings were redirected to discretionary projects
that supported the bank's business strategy without increasing the total IT budget. As
the program evolved, a trusting partnership developed between IT and the business.
Management reports also support supply-side cost
savings by helping the IT organization to price its
products so that it recovers its costs in full and to
monitor the progress of cost-cutting initiatives. Once
IT understands its baseline costs, it can use key
metrics on costs, asset efficiency, and labor
productivity to begin comparing its performance
against industry benchmarks.
If IT spending per employee or CPU utilization seems to be out of line, for example, the
IT organization can begin to identify and correct the underlying problems. A
benchmarking exercise at the wholesale bank helped it to consolidate its servers and
vendors (moves that saved $70 million and $100 million, respectively, in the first year)
and to consolidate its desktops (saving $15 million in the first two years.) When IT
makes progress in such efforts, unit costs fall, usually to levels in line with benchmarks.
Guidelines for success
Only motivated business managers can drive cost transparency programs, but IT can
stimulate demand for transparency. Communicating external benchmarks and cost
performance targets to business managers highlights the potential savings from such
programs. IT can also build support for them by presenting cost transparency as a way to
address the mystery--and headache--of growing technology expenditures. To persuade
the business that it should buy into a cost transparency effort, one company used case
studies showing the benefits of demand-management and service-level trade-offs.
Make key decisions early, with input from the business
To simplify and accelerate the cost transparency program, the IT organization should
make key decisions--including which products go in the catalog, what service levels are
available for each of them, how they should be defined and priced, and how to
depreciate costs--in the program's initial stages.
Making these decisions further into the process can lead to time-consuming rework.